In today’s society, adults need to know self defense tactics. But, what about your kids? A threatening situation could be around the next corner. Would your child know what to do, and could he/she defend themselves?
The kids of today deal with many things that we never even thought about. Within the last 30 years, countless dangers, along with wonderful technologies, have surfaced. Things like, computers, digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS), flash drives, and cell phones. There are too many educational and life enhancing products to mention. But, along with the marvelous inventions came predators, scams, identity theft, abuse, and many more dastardly deeds.
Today, kids are far more advanced than their grandparents. They deal with social peer expectations, media hype concerning beauty, fashion, and wealth. Drugs and alcohol is everywhere, television, magazines, and schools.
So, planning for and avoiding possible threatening situations must be taught to your kids. Teach your kids how to defend themselves if a sexual predator or abusive situation should arise or threaten their safety. Children are naturally friendly and trusting. The are willing to help when asked. Identify places that kids are most vulnerable to attack, like school playgrounds, public parks, biking or walking alone, and computer chat rooms.
Many families discuss and plan escape routes in the event of a fire in their home. So, why not discuss self defense with your kids? Family discussions and planning about self defense, might help your child avoid or escape from a disastrous situation.
Identify safe havens in your home and neighborhood. Make sure your kids understand that their safety is the primary goal. Teach them never to be afraid to tell an adult if someone tries or actually does abuse them sexually or physically. kids
Many people think of self defense as a kick to the groin, or an elbow jab to the throat. But, we’re talking about kids, and it’s very doubtful that a small child could accomplish any of those types of defense.
Kids must be taught that self defense is doing everything possible to avoid or get away from an attacker. Self defense is about using your smarts; not your fists.
Teach your kids about limitations. Don’t force feed them some diluted information just because they’re kids. Children learn and respond to teaching when you show them you have confidence in their intelligence.
Help kids to learn to observe people and their activities. Teach them to be aware of their surroundings and to notice people watching them.
Teach them to run away and get help if they’re in a threating situation. If they cannot escape, teach your kids about vulnerable parts of our bodies. Teach kids to use the hard parts of their body for self defense and escape. For instance, poking eyes, bending and twisting fingers, scratching the face, kicking groin, elbowing throat or neck areas, and using their heel to kick in the groin area. Tell them to scream loudly, while kicking or wiggling to get away from their attacker. protect kids
But, you must teach your kids to understand that this type of activity is only acceptable if someone should try to abduct or hurt them physically. They must know that self defense is to be used only when their safety is in danger. These activities must never be used when throwing a temper tantrum or just because they are angry or upset because they did not get their way about something!
Predators do not want to draw attention to themselves, and might decide this kid is not worth their efforts.
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